For your art information, we’ll center on Salvador Dali today.
There were two major influences on the artist, Salvador Dali. One was Sigmund Freud, and the other was Surrealism. It was Freud’s ideas on the unconscious mind and dream interpretations that were the basis for the Surrealists’ art movement in the 1920s. The Surrealists’ expressed the inner working of the mind through their writing and art.
Even from an early life, Dali believed he would achieve with his art all that he dreamed. He was driven by a need for money, fame, and acceptance as a great artist. He delighted in endless self-promoting, consistently declaring himself as the only true Surrealist, unabashedly embracing fame and celebrity.
In Dali’s Painting, The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can be Used as a Table,Vermeer is represented as a dark spindly figure in a kneeling position. The figure’s outstretched leg serves as a table top surface, on which sits a bottle and a small glass.
To Dali, his life and art were one and the same. His paintings are memories of his childhood spent on the coast of Spain which had its own fiercely independent history and spirit. With his art, he converted the signs symbols and landscapes of these early years.
The title of the painting refers to the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and the image of Vermeer viewed from his back is a reference to Vermeer’s paintings.
Dalí painted the piece in oil on panel and it measures 24 x 18 cm.
Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach, is considered on of Dali’s true masterpieces. The picture shows a fruit in a wine glass. Below the fruit is a human face which shows the handle depicted by the face’s nose bridge. The texture of the face is the sand of the beach. The left eye is a cannon and the right eye is a window in which a snowy mountain with trees on it is behind the window.
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